“How far is that supposed to go?”
Beer mug attack stuns referee boss
08/07/2023, 10:55 am
There was an incident during the first second division home game of SV Elversberg: a fan dumped the contents of his beer mug in the face of an assistant referee. The referee boss of the DFB reacted with sharp words.
The German Football Association has clearly condemned the attack on an assistant referee after the second division game between SV Elversberg and Hansa Rostock. Referee Robert Kampka’s team had just left the field and was about to go into the dressing room when, according to the club’s findings, a Saarland supporter threw a mug of beer, which crashed into a wall in the players’ tunnel. The fluid hit assistant referee Fabian Maibaum.
As announced by the promoted team, the club has “initiated a procedure for a nationwide effective and long-term stadium ban” against the perpetrator. The announcement of a season ticket withdrawal was made in writing on Saturday evening after the game. Immediately after the throw, the perpetrator was caught and identified by security personnel in the main stand, expelled from the stadium and handed over to the police
“How far is that supposed to go? Where is that supposed to lead, for the affected referees in all divisions, but also for the image of football?” asked Lutz Michael Fröhlich, Managing Director of Sport and Communication at DFB Schiri GmbH, in a statement on Sunday. The long-time Bundesliga referee went on to say that the attacks against referees ranged “from throwing cups and pouring beer over insulting and derogatory statements and defamation in social networks to death threats”.
Victim reports
Fröhlich assured the affected assistant support. According to the DFB, Maibaum wants to file a criminal complaint and criminal complaint with the police against the visitor.
According to the police, there were arguments after the game in Saarbrücken’s Ludwigspark, which Hansa Rostock won with two goals in added time. Rostock fans had violently opened a locked gate in the stadium, the opening of which had been delayed. The emergency services were injured. The police said pepper spray and batons were used there, as well as when Rostock fans and supporters of 1. FC Saarbrücken later met. These would have been waiting for the Hansa fans.